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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Sauce Tureen and Cover

1925 (designed and made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain sauce tureen and cover with a stem base and two handles, each handle has a stylised crest appendage at the bottom, a knob of similar design surmounted on the cover; decorated with painted birds and plants and gilding.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl Body
  • Bowl Cover
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with painted and gilded decoration
Brief description
Sauce tureen and cover, part of a tableware range, porcelain with painted and gilded decoration, shape designed by Christian Joachim, decorated by Arno Malinowski, manufactured by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, 1925.
Physical description
Porcelain sauce tureen and cover with a stem base and two handles, each handle has a stylised crest appendage at the bottom, a knob of similar design surmounted on the cover; decorated with painted birds and plants and gilding.
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘ROYAL COPENHAGEN DENMARK’ around a crown (Printed in green)
  • Three wavy lines (Painted in blue)
  • '734.12449 BGX' (Painted in green)
Object history
Part of a tableware range, Circ.274&A, 275-1939.

These items form part of a service shown
in the Paris Exhibition of 1925, where the
Danish artists Joachim and Malinowski
were awarded a prize for the design.
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 39 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.274&A-1939

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Record createdSeptember 25, 2008
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